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Time of India
29-07-2025
- Time of India
Another youth stabbed, this time at SD College
Times News Network Chandigarh: Yet another stabbing incident involving youth was reported in the city on Tuesday. This time, the attack took place at GGDSD College, right in front of the principal's office, where eight to 10 youths allegedly attacked a student with a sharp-edged weapon. The victim was admitted in GMCH-32. Police have registered a case against the accused. Further investigation is on and no arrests have been made so far. The complainant, Ekampreet Singh, 24, belongs to Ropar, Punjab and is an MA second year student at the college. Ekampreet, a supporter of SDCU, was present in the Automation Centre near the principal's office at around 1pm on July 28 when he saw Hunnar Gill, supporter of Independent Student Front (ISF), forcibly removing the SDCU sticker from a student's shirt. When he objected, Hunar Gill allegedly threatened him. After around 15 minutes, he allegedly returned with his eight to 10 associates. Ekampreet accused them of making death threats and assaulting him with sharp weapons. He added that he knew a few of the youths who confronted him. As he fell down injured and his friends tried to rescue him, some of the accused — Jashan Sher Gill, Anmol Gill, Fateh Baidwan, Hunar Gill, Rizwal Siddhu, Nirwan, and others — kept up the attack with sharp-edged weapons, he claimed. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like How Universal Basic Income Could Empower Workers in an Automated Future Liseer Undo He also said that he could identify the remaining assailants. His friends rushed him to GMCH-32 for treatment and informed the police about the assault. Upon receiving information, Sector 34 police reached the hospital and recorded his statement. A case was registered against Hunar Gill and others under relevant sections of BNS. The complainant alleged that the accused had previously issued death threats against him. Ekampreet Singh received nine stitches on the head and was discharged from hospital after treatment late in the evening. He claimed that the main accused, Hunar Gill and Jashan Sher Gill, were not students of the college. According to him, Hunar's father is a Punjab Police officer, and they were pressuring him into withdrawing his complaint. He alleged that Jashan Singh Gill also had a criminal background. The complainant said that the accused, Hunar Gill and Jashan Sher Gill, allegedly gained entry into the college with Rizwal Sidhu, who planned to contest a student council election from ISF. GGDSD College principal Dr Ajay Sharma said that those involved in the clash were outsiders, and the college was cooperating with the police in the investigation. "We are taking necessary steps and have shared all available details with the authorities. Such incidents will not be tolerated," he said. On the status of one of the injured, Ekam, the principal said he was a student last year but has not been granted admission this session. However, Ekam claims that he is still a student of MA Sociology and has pending reappear examinations from previous semesters. Commenting on how outsiders managed to gain entry, the principal said that this was due to the admission season. He added that the college has started issuing identity cards to students to regulate campus entry strictly. "As admissions are nearly complete, we will soon restrict campus access to only students and staff to avoid any outsider interference," the principal said. The city has been on edge this year, with 15 murder cases reported. In 12, victims were stabbed with knives and sharp-edged weapons. Two were beaten to death with iron rods and sticks, while one person was shot dead. Police claim to have solved all the cases. They said that in most, the accused used long blades with long-handled knives obtained from nearby shops in residential areas. Most of the murders took place in southern sectors, villages, and colonies. Out of 14 murders, nine were reported from southern parts of the city like Ramdarbar, Maloya, Burail, sectors 43, 52, and 54. Police can arrest people for carrying long-handled knives under sections 25-54-59 of the Arms Act. Under the Act, knives with specific features, such as a blade length exceeding 9 inches or a blade width exceeding 2 inches, or those designed for offensive purposes, could be considered "arms." A volatile year for the city July 5, 2025: Sanjeet, 19, was fatally stabbed by a group of youths in the VIP gully of Indira Colony, Manimajra. Police arrested two persons, including a juvenile in the case July 7, 2025: Deva, who came to get his scooter repaired in Maloya, was brutally attacked. He was rushed to GMSH-16 but was declared dead. A case was registered against Raman, Kallu, Anil alias Neela, a woman, and an unknown person June 26, 2025: UT Police filed a case against a man for allegedly murdering a 35-year-old woman, his live-in partner, at her rented room in Burail village. The deceased was assaulted with sharp-edged weapons May 16, 2025: Sector 31 police apprehended five juveniles for allegedly murdering an 18-year-old youth at a park in Ram Darbar. The minors allegedly assaulted the victim with sharp-edged weapons multiple times April 18, 2025: A 28-year-old Shimla resident was stabbed to death after resisting a robbery attempt by two juvenile assailants near the Sector 43/44 dividing road April 14, 2025: An Ambala resident was murdered over Rs 1,400 in the forest area of Sector 54. One person was arrested. March 16, 2025: A man was stabbed to death on Holi in Sector 25 after a brawl over forcible smearing of colour MSID:: 122976343 413 |
IOL News
25-07-2025
- IOL News
Unemployed teacher in legal battle with education department after missing deadline for permanent job application
A teacher was engaged in a legal battle with education department after she was not hired permanently. An unemployed teacher who worked on contract took the Western Cape Department of Education Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) after she was not hired when her contract ended. Sibahle Qhiphu was employed as an educator at Wallasdene Secondary School in Cape Town. When her contract ended in December 2024, she referred an unfair dismissal dispute to the ELRC. She explained that her dispute was about non-conversion to a permanent position, because she applied to be converted to permanent, but she was not converted and now she was unemployed. She had the necessary qualification required for the position. She has a Grade 12 certificate, a National Diploma in Adult Basic Education and Training. The position in question was for a teacher in English First Additional Language and Tourism in the Further Education and Training (FET) phase and she was teaching those subjects when she was on contract. Explaining her ordeal, Qiphu said she was on lunch when she was informed by the school secretary, Zandile Faye, that she had to quickly certify her documents as the circuit manager would be at the school to sign the applications. She got a lift from her colleague to get her documents certified but when she returned to the school at around 4PM, in order to hand in her documents, everybody at the office already left. She went home with the documents and submitted them on Tuesday November 19, 2024, four days later. She did not receive any feedback after submitting her application.
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Business Standard
05-07-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
In a first, Indian Navy inducts woman officer into its fighter pilot stream
In a historic moment for the Indian Navy, Sub-Lieutenant Astha Poonia has officially become the first woman to be inducted into the fighter stream, marking a major milestone in the Navy's journey towards greater gender inclusivity in combat roles, news agency ANI reported. Sub-Lieutenant Poonia received the prestigious "Wings of Gold" from Rear Admiral Janak Bevli, Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Air), during a ceremony held on Thursday (July 3). She completed the Second Basic Hawk Conversion Course at Naval Air Station INS Dega in Visakhapatnam, alongside Lieutenant Atul Kumar Dhull, who was also conferred the same honour. Defence acquisition council clears key deals On the same day, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), headed by the Defence Minister, approved 10 capital acquisition proposals worth approximately ₹1.05 trillion. The proposals include the procurement of indigenously developed Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missiles (QRSAMs), naval vessels, and other defence systems. The approvals cover armoured recovery vehicles, electronic warfare systems, and an integrated common inventory management system for the tri-services. Surface-to-air missiles were also part of the key items cleared. Navy gets stealth edge with Udaygiri frigate Adding to its modernisation, the Indian Navy recently received Udaygiri, the second stealth frigate of the Project 17A class, from Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL). The advanced multi-mission warship, capable of operating in blue-water environments, was designed by the Navy's Warship Design Bureau. According to MDL, Udaygiri features cutting-edge technologies for stealth, sea-keeping, and survivability, with hull shaping and signature suppression techniques making it comparable to top-class global warships. INS Arnala joins Navy's shallow-water warfare fleet Further strengthening its anti-submarine warfare capabilities, the Navy last month commissioned INS Arnala — the first of 16 indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASWSWC). Named after a coastal fort in Maharashtra, the 77-metre-long ship is part of the Eastern Naval Command and is the largest Indian Naval warship to be powered by a diesel engine-waterjet combination. The vessel is equipped with advanced underwater sensors, acoustic communication systems, and a comprehensive weapons suite, including lightweight torpedoes, rockets, decoys, and mine-laying capabilities. It also supports search and rescue operations in coastal waters.
Forbes
24-06-2025
- Science
- Forbes
Bringing Physical AI Robotics: Is It Time For The Jetsons Yet?
circa 1962: Cartoon family the Jetsons, comprised of George, Jane, Judy, Elroy, and Astro, flying ... More in a space car in a space age city, in a still from the Hanna-Barbera animated television show, 'The Jetsons'. (Photo by) To some of us, the rollout of artificial intelligence is fairly reminiscent of the last technology shift with personal computers, small devices and deterministic programming. I'll explain. If you recall in the 1980s in 1990s, as we were seeing computer science developed with languages like Fortran and Basic, the dreamers among us saw how these things could easily be tethered to robotic systems. You could make some kind of physical avatar, like a snail or a little car, move in different directions. You could get robotic arms to pick things up… So it was surprising to some of us that those sorts of applications never really took on. Computing stayed in the digital realm, where it seemed to belong in terms of computer consumer applications. Now in business, robotics took off in a big way, and that's still happening. But on the consumer side, we never really got used to the idea that robots could do human labor. With AI, we stand on the brink of the next piece of what you might call the fourth industrial revolution, where we start to contemplate how smart machines could move around and do things for us, like washing the dishes, or helping a loved one to and from the toilet. In some ways, it comes at the perfect time, as people are worried about underpopulation and a lack of caregiving labor, not to mention all sorts of other economic and labor problems related to things like housework. Could AI solve all of this? I think we all agree that the technology is here. The question is how it will get done. The Fourth Industrial Revolution Some experts talk about characterizing this technology transformation in ways that suggest that robotics are coming sooner rather than later. 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution is … not a prediction of the future, but a call to action,' writes Klaus Schwab in an essay on the subject. 'It is a vision for developing, diffusing, and governing technologies in ways that foster a more empowering, collaborative, and sustainable foundation for social and economic development, built around shared values of the common good, human dignity, and intergenerational stewardship. Realizing this vision will be the core challenge and great responsibility of the next 50 years.' It does seem like referring to the prior industrial revolution, and how AI builds on that, is a good way to frame it. Researching Robotics Some sciences are taking a technical approach to measuring the development of robotics. Here's a paper where scientists discuss some of this method – they're actually taking manufacturing information and other sources to come up with some kind of synthesis. 'The spread of robots and artificial intelligence has raised concerns about automation technology-driven innovation,' authors write. 'This paper investigates the role of robots as a source of unconventional innovation and empirically analyzes the relationship between robots and firm innovation from unconventional and sustainable perspectives. We build a unique dataset containing detailed information on firm characteristics with firms' patent data and merge it with data on robot adoption in Chinese manufacturing.' Presumably, we'll need more of this to really understand what robotics is doing in our markets. Body and Brain I want to go to something that my colleague Daniela Rus said in a recent IIA panel about just this particular thing – physical AI and robotics. 'In order to have a functional robot, you really need to have a good body, and you need to have a good brain,' she explained. 'The brain controls the body to deliver its capabilities … right now, from the point of view of the hardware, we still don't have all the sensors that are needed in order to get the robots to do more than navigate the world. So if we want the robots to do interaction in the world, we need better sensors (for) navigation.' I think that's very on point, and a good way to think about all of this. More Thoughts on Physical AI Rus was part of a panel discussing all of the ways that we can facilitate the advent of robotics endowed with AI capabilities. 'It turns out that it's frustratingly difficult to develop a robot with what I would call 'AI spatial understanding,'' said panelist John Leonard. 'A lot of our AI approaches are based on human-annotated data sets … Facebook/Meta has a data set technique trained on a billion images. That's not how children learn. I think that navigation and exploring the world lends itself to robots that can learn from their own experience, from much smaller numbers of samples of data, exploiting the kind of spatial, temporal context of the data that they acquire.' Talking about something called the Moravec paradox, considered by Minsky and others (see definition here), Leonard suggested we need a sort of 'language of physics' to facilitate the robot boom. Panelist Thomas Baker had this to say about robot operations: 'If I send a robot to a planet, can I say, hey, build a house? Does it understand what it needs? Does it understand the materials that are around it? Does it understand how to construct everything necessary, to then build what's necessary, and then handle dust storms and radiation and whatnot? So the problem expands quite a bit.' Caleb Sirak talked about the impact of such physical systems, asking: 'How do we take the more efficient architectures that we know, the computations in AI, matrix multiplication … how do we take that, and apply that onto a chip that we can produce at scale from anywhere around the world, and then provide that to people that need to use it, and typically in AI, how do we do that at a fast enough speed that we can get it in real time?' The result, he noted, has a big effect. 'That's been a tremendous impact in all around the world, in rural countries,' Sirak said, 'and seeing that drones are being able to deliver medicine and be able to fly autonomously is incredible. And seeing that we're able to distribute this around the world is really powerful.' Panelist Annika Thomas talked about her experience using AI in a rapidly changing era. 'I went to undergrad at the time where we didn't have ChatGPT,' she said. 'Learned a lot during that time, but I also learned how to interpret information faster, and that's something that I want to be able to teach our robots to do as well. I want our robots to be able to parse through the spatial environment and figure out what information is most important to keep, especially when we're looking at these things from a multi-agent setting.' The panel also took questions, and discussed other aspect of this phenomenon - check out the video for more. Robots in our World Once again, we're invited to think about what this will actually look like. Back in the 1980s, we had the Jetsons – a cartoon with flying cars, robot maids, and all kinds of high-tech gee-whiz gizmos that we've never seen actually manufactured for our homes. Will that change? Stay tuned.
Scottish Sun
13-06-2025
- Scottish Sun
Aldi's £4.99 foldable cabin bag is perfect for easyJet flights & keeping your clothes tidy on summer hols
WEIGHT OFF Aldi's £4.99 foldable cabin bag is perfect for easyJet flights & keeping your clothes tidy on summer hols Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) TRAVEL lovers will be planning their summer holidays and looking forward to the sun and sea. But there's nothing worse than getting caught out by militant measures - and here's the answer. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Aldi's £4.99 foldable cabin bag is perfect for easyJet flights this summer Credit: Getty 2 The Basic foldable cabin bag comes in at only £4.99 Credit: Aldi To avoid paying for an overpriced cabin bag or finding somewhere to store it in your hotel - Aldi has the solution. Aldi's £4.99 foldable cabin bag is perfect for easyJet flights & keeping your clothes tidy during your summer break. So whether it is a cheeky weekend away, or luggage for that family holiday - check this out. The Basic foldable cabin bag comes in at only £4.99 with the dimensions of 44 x 33 x 16cm. Made out of durable water repellent ripstop material, it has a main compartment, and a water repellent zipper with double puller. It also comes with a mesh pocket at both sides, a trolley sleeve and a carry handle making it perfect for all your holiday essentials. Travel lovers have also been lapping up a big brand cabin bag that's even more penny-pinching than Primark's own version. The Robert Dyas Underseat Cabin Bag is available in black/red, it comes in at a savvy £7.99 and is ideal for short breaks or business trips. The travel companion is priced even lower than Primark's £12 Underseat Bag. It also has an additional sleeve section on the back to fit over trolley case handles. Adjustable shoulder strap and top carry handle. Shopper urges others to nab £8 Morrisons case perfect for EasyJet flights and a breeze to take through the airport Happy customers reviewed online: "Great bag to take on plane." A second added: "Underseat travel bag. Perfect size to use when travelling. Strong bag, easy to fold and store away." A third praised: "Looks good and roomy, ideal to take onboard a plane and lots of compartments for important stuff." Amazon is also selling a cabin bag that is EasyJet and Jet2 compatible. Luggage Rules for Major Airlines British Airways Cabin Baggage: 1 cabin bag (max 56 x 45 x 25 cm) and 1 personal item (max 40 x 30 x 15 cm), total weight up to 23 kg. 1 cabin bag (max 56 x 45 x 25 cm) and 1 personal item (max 40 x 30 x 15 cm), total weight up to 23 kg. Checked Baggage: Economy allows 1 bag up to 23 kg. Premium Economy, Business, and First Class allow more. EasyJet Cabin Baggage: 1 small cabin bag (max 45 x 36 x 20 cm), no weight limit but must fit under the seat. 1 small cabin bag (max 45 x 36 x 20 cm), no weight limit but must fit under the seat. Checked Baggage: Fees apply, up to 23 kg per bag. Passengers can pay for additional weight up to 32 kg. Ryanair Cabin Baggage: 1 small bag (max 40 x 20 x 25 cm). Priority boarding allows an additional larger cabin bag (max 55 x 40 x 20 cm, up to 10 kg). 1 small bag (max 40 x 20 x 25 cm). Priority boarding allows an additional larger cabin bag (max 55 x 40 x 20 cm, up to 10 kg). Checked Baggage: Fees apply, options for 10 kg or 20 kg bags. Virgin Atlantic Cabin Baggage: Economy and Premium allow 1 cabin bag (max 56 x 36 x 23 cm, up to 10 kg). Upper Class allows 2 bags. Economy and Premium allow 1 cabin bag (max 56 x 36 x 23 cm, up to 10 kg). Upper Class allows 2 bags. Checked Baggage: Economy Light has no checked baggage. Economy Classic, Delight, and Premium allow at least 1 bag up to 23 kg. Upper Class allows 2 bags. Emirates Cabin Baggage: Economy allows 1 bag (max 55 x 38 x 20 cm, up to 7 kg). Business and First Class allow 2 bags (total up to 12 kg). Economy allows 1 bag (max 55 x 38 x 20 cm, up to 7 kg). Business and First Class allow 2 bags (total up to 12 kg). Checked Baggage: Economy Class varies by fare type (from 20 kg to 35 kg). Business and First Class allow up to 40 kg and 50 kg respectively. Its available in both grey and black and is waterproof - which is an extra travel bonus. And for those after check in luggage, Dunelm is selling a tough shell, metallic large suitcase for £45.
